Since reading Naomi Klein’s Doppelganger and its parts about Covid and fitness influencer culture a while ago (especially the chapter "The Far Right Meets the Far Out"), I cannot help but see that “Pinterest clean girl fitness and fruit bowl gua sha yoga mat pilates in the forest” content as covert white supremacy...

"When I die, delete my browser history." ­— Unknown When you die, there are lots of processes in place to deal with your body, your burial, your physical possessions, subscriptions and bank accounts. But what about your digital accounts and possessions? As our lives become more and more digital, taking these into...

I'm feeling pretty down in the dumps today. As my wife listened to me and kindly massaged my feet to make me feel better, she said "It's exhausting how life is like training with Yoda at Dagobah. Everything is about overcoming obstacles, waiting, and having patience." Thought that was funny, and cute. Reply via...

As usual - not counting the personal blogs I read :) online articlesNot much appealed to me this week. The AI ‘Revolution' is Not a People's Revolution - AI companies overusing the term revolution is just a marketing ploy, and we should challenge it. Banger quote: "Accepting Blair’s revolution requires agreeing that...

I can't help but wonder whether we will look back on this AI hype in the workplace with confusion and embarrassment. If we indeed progress into a future where the bubble will burst, models will further close up, become too expensive for the average user, enshittified, or really specialized for specific fields and...

Whenever I descend into a mental health episode (often, but not always, triggered by cycle-related hormonal changes), there’s very specific signs both my wife and I pick up on. She usually notices it earlier than me, though. The pattern is always the same: Issues falling asleep, feeling inexplicably sad and without...

Just letting you know that my email address has changed from @pm.me to @tuta.com. The change is reflected in the footer and post template already. I don't know what I will do about the 400+ old posts that have the old email address attached yet; email forwarding has been set, but it will apparently run out next year...

I've read less this week than the prior one. I was catching up on a lot of recorded talks from re:publica 26, which I couldn't attend (those talks will get their own post!). I was also a tad busy with meeting people and doing the ring class, and also unfortunately struggling with depression. I didn't manage reading...

Not a webring - maybe some day - but an even cooler one! My wife and I went to the jewelry workshop our friends gifted us for our wedding last year. I had a moonstone at home I wanted to turn into a ring (yes, I do love big chunky gems as rings, as you might have already guessed from other pics of my hands,...

Whenever someone talks about how they let AI improve their writing, I realize we are still taking the wrong things away from what good writing supposedly is. Not that I am the arbiter of good writing, but we can agree that at its core, good writing is a pleasure to read, connects to the reader, respects the context...

img { display: inline-block; } rose It was my wife's birthday, and our wedding anniversary! Baked some cakes and had a great time. Mine is the Donauwelle attached at the bottom of the post, my wife baked the fruit cake. My friend who visited Japan bought us great gifts from there; I got two gachapon (Cinnamoroll and...

Thought that after my post on summary distrust, I could share a list of what I read each week. I technically prefer to process and digest what I read into blog posts, but not everything makes it into one, and this is a way to document and keep them, and maybe give others some food for thought. This is not...